Cats and Cleaning

Have been cleaning today- hard work when these flats haven't been lived in for around 6 months. But I have decided to buy a new fridge-freezer and washing machine that were in the flats. Bargain! Some of the appliances have been hardly used and are like new. Considering the price we paid for the fridge we have, I though I'd got a good deal.

I start work in my new job on Saturday. I have to open a new bank account tomorrow to allow direct payment- but that will work out well as it is the same bank as my landlord so I can arrange a direct payment for the rent!

I have a rice pudding in the oven at the moment. I put mixed spice on the top and it is starting to smell amazing. Great what you can do with a few basic ingredients (milk, rice and sugar).

The picture above is an ATC I did based on the painting by Franz Marc called 'Two Cats'. I love his work- my mum sent me photographs she took of his Tiger painting that I used in a piece of work I did for my GCSE Art. Sad to think that some artists die before their time- makes you wonder what kinds of works they would have done if they had been around for longer.

David hasn't been well. They are admitting him next week for a Cysotscopy (camera examination) and he has a catheter in place yet again. Third in so many weeks. Ugh.

Delays and deliveries

Here's something that makes me laugh every time I see it. It just does ok! Quite appropriate too as the first few Christmas cards we received this year showed penguins.

So today we finally got some mail- only been 10 days since the last lot was delivered. Not bad eh?! I received some more of the RAK packages that were sent early December! Hurrah they are still coming through and all those lovely people are making me smile still. Some wonderful ATC's today- and some inchies- how do people make such beautiful things so darn small????? Don't think I'll be attempting them any time soon.

Delays of another kind when a friends plane was nearly an hour late. And she didn't bother to tell us that her boss was picking her up when we were ready to go out and help her get home. Never mind.

Oh, and I took a computer keyboard apart today for fun. The electrical circuits are printed on plastic, so guess what might be making an appearance on ATC's sometime soon? I kept some of the keys too and stripped the outer plastic off the main wire. With the sea glass I have been collecting, I guess I should get back to making some of my wire ATC's. Keep your eyes peeled, they might just be exclusive to this blog!